Senior Identity Engineer - Microsoft Entra/AD (Hybrid)

Insight; Austin (TX); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Insight seeks a Lead Microsoft Identity Engineer to support and enhance enterprise identity infrastructure across Active Directory, Entra ID, and related authentication platforms. This onsite role in Austin combines hands-on engineering, migrations, and strategic improvements for secure identity services.

You will lead migration projects, design and troubleshoot AD, manage Group Policy, and collaborate on cloud integrations with Entra ID, Okta, and other platforms.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience administering and engineering enterprise Microsoft Active Directory environments.
• 7+ years of experience with Active Directory design, implementation, migration, and troubleshooting.
• Experience with cloud platforms such as Azure, AWS, or GCP is required.

Responsibilities

• Lead Active Directory migration projects, including cross-forest migrations.
• Design, implement, maintain, and troubleshoot Microsoft Active Directory environments.
• Manage Group Policy for servers and endpoints.
• Support authentication technologies including ADFS, Kerberos, LDAP, and token-based authentication.
• Migrate users, groups, computers, and other directory objects between domains and forests.
• Administer and support Microsoft identity services in hybrid environments.
• Partner on identity modernization initiatives involving Entra ID, Okta, and cloud platforms.
• Perform Active Directory health assessments, remediation, and optimization.
• Manage Windows Server upgrades and lifecycle activities.
• Support disaster recovery, capacity planning, and infrastructure improvements.

Skills

Active Directory

Group Policy

DNS

DHCP

DFS

Windows Server

Identity security

Hybrid Identity

PowerShell

Tools

Okta

Job description

Insight seeks a Lead Microsoft Identity Engineer to support and enhance enterprise identity infrastructure across Active Directory, Entra ID, and related authentication platforms. This onsite role in Austin combines hands-on engineering, migrations, and strategic improvements for secure identity services.

You will lead migration projects, design and troubleshoot AD, manage Group Policy, and collaborate on cloud integrations with Entra ID, Okta, and other platforms.